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Runcorn and Helsby was polluted by sewage 1,186 times in 2023
lasting 9,425 hours - that's 1.09 years!

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Totals for Runcorn and Helsby in 2023

27 Sites polluted by United Utilities

1,186 sewage dumps
9,425 h duration

That's 1.09 years! On average 3.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Runcorn and Helsby

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Runcorn and Helsby in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 0 of the total 27 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
United Utilities	Unknown	LABURNUM GROVE	206	3,614	100
United Utilities	Unknown	WINDSOR GROVE	173	2,085	100
United Utilities	Stanney Mill Brook	MICKLE TRAFFORD PUMPING STATION	122	1,201	99.8
United Utilities	M/C Ship Canal	RUNCORN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	69	883	100
United Utilities	Thornton Brook/River Gowy	ELLESMERE PORT WWTW	91	710	99.9
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	TOWN PUMPING STATION	36	266	89.3
United Utilities	River Weaver	NEWTOWN PUMPING STATION	46	207	100
United Utilities	Hornsmill Brook	HELSBY WWTW	20	92	99.65
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	PENN LANE WESTON POINT PR CSO 202LE	76	89	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	HALTON BROW CSO 203EF	89	84	99.7
United Utilities	River Weaver	WATERSIDE DRIVE CSO 472H4	34	70	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	HARDWICK ROADCSO	15	25	100
United Utilities	Hornsmill Brook	HAPSFORD SPS	14	23	100
United Utilities	Main Drain	HIGH STREET/MOORS LANE CSO	32	19	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	RUNCORN ROAD CSO	22	10	100
United Utilities	River Mersey	TRENTHAM P.S	48	7	100
United Utilities	Frodsham Marsh Ditch	HATLEY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	14	6	100
United Utilities	West Central Drain, Mersey Est	ELTON PS	3	6	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	THE BROW CSO 202UP	16	4	100
United Utilities	Kingsley Brook	OFF WELL LANE KINGSLEY CSO (472JN)	15	3	100
United Utilities	Willow Brook	RUNCORN TOWN HALL CSO	4	3	100
United Utilities	River Weaver	BRIDGE LANE QUAYSIDE CSO	9	2	100
United Utilities	River Mersey	DARESBURY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	10	1	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal	WATERLOO ROAD CSO (202ZW)	10	1	100
United Utilities	Manchester Ship Canal Via Sws	SALTWORKS PUMPING STATION	2	1	100
United Utilities	Bridgewater Canal Via Sws	DOWNS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	8	0	100
United Utilities	Weaver Navigation	SOUTH PARADE CSO 202S2	2	0	100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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